While it was smooth-sailing for Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill through the House of Commons, peers are now scrutinising the controversial legislation in the way elected members of parliament utterly failed to do. On 11 September, the House of Lords Select Committee on the Constitutio...
The Labour Party government’s war on chronically ill and disabled people is only just getting started. After the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) rammed through its brutal cuts to Universal Credit, and backlash forced it to shelve its plans to slash access to Personal Independence Pa...
Mainstream media has been abuzz with the news of five “Hollywood luminaries” throwing their support behind the upcoming film The Voice of Hind Rajab. Brad Pitt, Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Alfonso Cuarón, and Jonathan Glazer have joined the film as executive producers after previewing a ...
Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana’s new political party – Your Party – is finally gearing up to ditch its placeholder name. It has now opened up the floor for supporters to put forward their best ideas for the party’s new title. At last, the public will see the back of the interim ‘Your Part...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been plugging a recruitment video that brags how the DWP is “touching so many people’s lives” and “truly” making “a difference to so many” claimants. On its own, that farcical double-speak is sure news to the many marginalised claimants the de...
This article was updated at 7pm on Friday 22 August to reflect a comment from the DWP. The Canary has uncovered disturbing new details about job roles spying on benefit claimants for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). We went undercover at an online launch – and what we heard was ...
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has posted a spate of new roles to spy on benefit claimants. Following jobs the Canary recently identified as part of its covert monitoring operations clamping down on next-to-non-existent benefit fraud, the DWP is now advertising 15 more position...
800,000 (and counting) have already signed up to the yet-named and formed ‘Your Party’ currently fronted by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana. The pair’s recent announcement of a new party has indisputably stirred a left-wing votership aching for a new political home. However, there’s much t...
A Conservative MP who has made millions from legal work in offshore tax havens is helping an investor behind the now abandoned Cumbria coal mine project to sue the UK government in an overseas corporate court. Cumbria coal mine rears its polluting head once more with a corporate court case...
Damning new testimony from an IDF soldier stationed at the Gaza border on 7 October has backed up growing evidence that Israel deliberately allowed the Al Aqsa Flood operation to happen. The soldier’s statement has turned the mirror on Israel’s cynical propaganda once again. While the geno...